(HBO) – Hoa Binh province’s locomotive zone includes Hoa Binh city, Luong Son district and the north of Lac Thuy district. Aware that they will enjoy dynamic development, helping improve locals' material and spiritual lives, and stimulate economic growth in adjacent areas, the agriculture sector has paid attention to improving products' added value, economic efficiency and competitiveness to ensure production sustainability.
Photo: Residents in Cu Yen commune of Luong Son
district have reaped good profits thanks to dragon fruit farming development.
In localities in the locomotive zone, irrigation works
have supplied water to 11,171 ha of rice fields since the beginning of this
year, up 1,312 ha from 2017. The zone is now home to 325 irrigation works and
systems, up 49 works from 2017.
The localities have also formed and developed safe, indigenous vegetable farming
areas, promoted safe farming under VietGAP and food safety standards to meet
market demand. There are 30 production facilities on a total 410.52 ha meeting
food safety, VietGAP and organic standards.
The province has issued seven farming zone codes, including four banana and
dragon fruit cultivation zones for export to China and three pomelo farming
areas to export to Europe, and five codes for packaging facilities for export.
So far, the locomotive zone have shipped over 700 tonnes of banana to China,
and more than 50 tonnes of white and purple sugar canes to Europe.
Along with production development, further attention
has also been paid to raising awareness of environment protection in farming.
As many as 12 training courses have been held to disseminate legal regulations
to 4,000 people on the collection, transport and treating containers of plant
protection chemicals after use.
Additionally, vocational training and technological
transfer courses are held annually with more than 1,410 farmers taking part,
through which they gain new knowledge to meet socio-economic development
requirements in the new period and provide quality products for markets. So
far, 37 products in the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme in the zone
have met three-star and higher standards, or 37% of total OCOP products in the
province with nine products rated as four-star, and 28 three-star./.
Once a mountainous province facing many challenges, Hoa Binh has, after more than a decade of implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area development, emerged as a bright spot in Vietnam’s northern midland and mountainous region. In the first quarter of 2025, the province recorded positive results, paving the way for Hoa Binh to enter a phase of accelerated growth with a proactive and confident mindset.
Hoa Binh province is steadily advancing its agricultural sector through the adoption of high-tech solutions, seen as a sustainable path for long-term development.
The steering committee for key projects of Hoa Binh province convened on May 14 to assess the progress of major ongoing developments
A delegation of Hoa Binh province has attended the "Meet Korea 2025" event, recently held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, and the People's Committee of Hung Yen province.
Hoa Binh province joined Vietnam’s national "One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme in 2019, not simply as a mountainous region following central policy, but with a clear vision to revive the cultural and agricultural values in its villages and crops.
From just 16 certified products in its inaugural year to 158 by early 2025, the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme in Hoa Binh province has followed a steady and strategic path. But beyond the numbers, it has reawakened local heritage, turning oranges, bamboo shoots, brocade, and herbal remedies into branded, market-ready goods - and, more profoundly, transformed how local communities value and present their own cultural identity.
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